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BNMS Awards & Prize Winners 2023
 
President's Medal 2020
Professor Sobhan Vinjamuri
Royal Liverpool Hospital

 

President's Medal 2023
Dr Alp Notghi
City Hospital, Birmingham

 

 
Norman Veall 2023
Ms Claire Greaves
Nottingham City Hospital

 

 

Radiographers, Technologists & Nurses Group Award 2023
Mrs Louise Causer
The Royal Marsden Hospital

 

Roll of Honour 2020
Dr Brian Neilly
Glasgow Royal Infirmary

 

Roll of Honour 2023
Prof Gary Cook
King's College London

 

Roll of Honour 2023
Professor Neil Hartman
Singleton Hospital

 

 

Honorary Membership 2022
Dr Brian Neilly
Glasgow Royal Infirmary

 

POSTER PRIZES SPONSORED BY National Physical Laboratory
 
3rd Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Rachael Clitheroe1, Daniel R McGowan1,2, Aida Hallam1
1Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
No. P12 “Evaluation of restrictions for thyrotoxicosis patients using EPD’s”

 
2nd Poster Prize of £200 awarded to:
Alexander Smout
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom
No. P03 “Hold the gin, mine’s a tech and tonic”

 
1st Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Adrien Peters, Job Daniel Livingstone, Marko Berovic, Nicola Mulholland
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. P48 “Using Brain SUV as reference for lymphoma”

  
RTNG PRIZES SPONSORED BY CURIUM
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Indre Vaitkute
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
No. P76 “Lateral bed transfer techniques to reduce body dose and exposure time in PET-CT”

 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Katrina Cockburn, Susan McGranaghan, Katrina Bland, Carmen Whiting 
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Durham, United Kingdom
No. 31 “Audit of Sentinel Lymph Node localisation in breast cancer surgery following administration of radioactive nanocolloids”

  
RADIOPHARMACY ORAL PRIZE SPONSORED BY ALLIANCE MEDICAL
 
£250 awarded to:
Katarzyna Wulfmeier, Juan Pellico, Philip Blower, Samantha Terry, Vincenzo Abbate 
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
No. 51 “Thallium-201 (201Tl) - labelled Prussian blue nanoparticles for Auger electron-emitter radionuclide therapy.”

 
SAUL HERTZ RADIOTHERAPY PRIZES SPONSORED BY AN ANONYMOUS DONOR
 
 
Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Neil Davis, Tamar Willson, Richard Meades, Danny McCool
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. P08 “Experiences of supervising the drainage of ascitic fluid in [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE therapy patients”

 
Oral Prize of £250 awarded to:
Jan Taprogge1,2, Iain Murray1,2, Carla Abreu1, Kate Newbold1, Lavinia Vija3, Frederic Courbon3, Markus Luster4, Glenn Flux1,2 
1Royal Marsden NHSFT, Sutton, United Kingdom, 2The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom, 3IUCT Oncopole, Toulouse, France, 4Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
No. 71 “The combination of post-operative thyroglobulin and absorbed dose to the thyroid predicts radioiodine therapy outcome in differentiated thyroid cancer patients”

  
ORAL PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Helena McMeekin1,2, A. Michael Peters3, Maria Burniston1, Manuela Vadrucci1 
1Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, 2Hermes Medical Solutions, London, United Kingdom, 3King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. 38 “Quantitative lymphoscintigraphy of the lower limbs for the diagnosis of phlebolymphoedema”

 
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Alexander Smout 
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom
No. 58 “Radionuclide penetration through surgical gowns from scratching with contaminated hands”

 
1st Prize of £300 + President’s Cup awarded to:
Rob Foley, Ben Mulhearn, Jessica Ellis, Shannon Gunawardana, Rajika Wickramarachchi, Jonathan Rodrigues, Oliver Watkinson, Sarah Tansley, Sarah Skeoch, Richard Graham 
Royal United Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom
No. 77 “Increasing the diagnostic yield from PET-CT in Giant Cell Arteritis by reporting Cardiovascular Parameters”

 
YOUNG INVESTIGATORS PRIZE SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
£500 awarded to:
Alexander Light1,2, Stefan Lazic3, Max Bayne4, Martin J. Connor1, Henry Tam3, Hashim U. Ahmed1,2, Taimur T. Shah1,2, Tara D. Barwick3,5
1Imperial Prostate, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Imperial Urology, Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, 3Imaging Department, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. 48 “The diagnostic performance of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET-CT versus multiparametric MRI for localising intra-prostatic radiorecurrent prostate cancer”
 
STUDENT PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Isabella Nicholaides1,2, James Scuffham1
1Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, United Kingdom, 2University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
No 60 - “Use of a closed-system drug transfer device to eliminate risk of needle stick injury and radioactive contamination in Ra-223 therapy”

 
Joint 1st Prize of £250 awarded to:
Basil Raju1, Stewart Redman2, David Little2, Will Loughborough2
1University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2Royal United Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom
No P59 – “Clinical significance and management of Incidental [18F]FDG uptake in the the prostate”
 
Joint 1st Prize of £250  awarded to:
Abigail Ezekiel1, Stewart Redman2, David Little2
1University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2RUH Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
No P55 – “Is there a role for SUVmax in predicting histological outcomes of incidental focal [18F]FDG uptake within the parotid glands?”

 
BNMS Lee Jenkins Memorial Prizes sponsored by Hermes
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Andrew Fenwick1, Andre Robinson1, Ana Denis Bacelar1, Daniel Deidda1, Kelley Ferreira1, Warda Heetun1, James Scuffham1,2 
1National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom, 2Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, United Kingdom
No. 52 “Metrology for Alpha Emitting Radiopharmaceuticals”
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Jonathan Dixon, Caitlin Reilly, Alice Nicol
Nuclear Medicine Department, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Department of Clinical Physics and Bioengineering, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
No. P22 “Misregistration of wholebody SPECT-CT acquisitions”

 

Preclinical Prize Sponsored by AAA
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Jordan Cheng1, Lefteris Livieratos2, Samantha Terry1 
1King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS FT, London, United Kingdom
No. 65 “Combining chemotherapy pre-treatment with [177Lu] Lu-DOTA-TATE enhances radiopharmaceutical uptake and reduces cancer cell survival in vitro"

 

Physics Prize Sponsored by IPEM
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Mark Baker 
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
No. 15 “Use of GATE Monte Carlo software for bespoke dosimetry of [18F]FDG PET-CT studies"

 

Ignac Fogelman Memorial Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Rob Foley, Richard Graham, Stewart Redman, David Little 
Royal United Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom
No. 43 “Comparison of standardised uptake values in malignant and degenerative bone lesions on bone scintigraphy."

 

Muriel Buxton-Thomas Memorial Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Nicholas Vennart1,2,3, Alex Phillips2, George Petrides2, Jill Tipping3,4, Andrew Knight1 
1South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, United Kingdom, 2Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 3The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 4The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
No. 8 “Can Artificial Intelligence predict survival from pre-treatment PET images for patients with Oesophageal cancer? "
 

POSTERS AWARDED CERTIFICATES OF MERIT 2023

P06  Using a contamination monitor to count GFR plasma samples as part of a business continuity 
plan
Alexander Smout
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom
 
P12 Evaluation of restrictions for thyrotoxicosis patients using EPD’s
Rachael Clitheroe1, Daniel R McGowan1,2, Aida Hallam1
1Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
P15 How protective is our PPE? Evaluating the Permeability of PPE with Common Radioisotopes used 
in Nuclear Medicine
Katherine Aktemel1,2, Carolyn Paterson1,2, Frances Hogg1,2, Alison Bolster1,3,4
1Department of Clinical Physics and Bioengineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, North East Sector, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, North East, Glasgow, 
United Kingdom, 4College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
P22 Misregistration of wholebody SPECT-CT acquisitions
Jonathan Dixon, Caitlin Reilly, Alice Nicol
Nuclear Medicine Department, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Department of Clinical Physics and Bioengineering, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
P39 Predicting monthly PET-CT referral rate using machine learning time-series forecasting
Richard Meades, Daniel McCool
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
 
P48 Using Brain SUV as reference for lymphoma
Adrien Peters, Job Daniel Livingstone, Marko Berovic, Nicola Mulholland
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
 
P52 Development of low-volume mouse-scale [82Sr]/[82Rb] generator for preclinical PET imaging
Zilin Yu, Aidan Michaels, George Firth, Thomas R Eykyn, Philip J Blower
King’s College London, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom
 
P59 Clinical significance and management of Incidental [18F]FDG uptake in the prostate
Basil Raju1, Stewart Redman2, David Little2, Will Loughborough2

1University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2Royal United Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom

P74 Impact of dental fillings on head CT doses for [18F] FDG PET-CT brain scans when using dose modulatio
Stuart Bartley, Ian Armstrong

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

P75 Changing standard operating procedure (SOP) to reduce tracer extravasation in PET-CT
Charlotte Shepherd, Sugama Chicklore, Giorgio Testanera

Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

P76 Lateral bed transfer techniques to reduce body dose and exposure time in PET-CT
Indre Vaitkute

King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

P81 Incidence of persistence and recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer in post-surgical cases 
from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Malek Othman1, Mohammed Al-Haideri1, Mazin Al-Janabi1,2

1Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Dubai, UAE, 2Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai, UAE

P84 Bone mineral density in adult thalassemia, a retrospective longitudinal study with a serial assessment over decades.
Sarah Algodayan, Ramya Balachandar, Bomanji Jamshed

University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom

P89 Using a Hoffman phantom to validate use of digital PET [18F]FDG brain images with a legacy normal 
database
Jamie Grey1,2, James Scuffham1, Fiona Barrack1, Peter Strouhal3, Claudia Bastos4, Angela Meadows3

1Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom, 2King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, 3Alliance Medical Limited, Warwick, United Kingdom, 4Guildford PET-CT Centre (Alliance Medical), Guildford, United Kingdom

P96 Use of eGFR to predict mGFR for selection of optimum sampling time point in single-sample 99mTc-DTPA GFR studies
Lara Bonney1, Daniel McGowan1,2

1Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

P100 Effect of low dose CT-based attenuation correction for SPECT on Lung Lobar Perfusion Quantification
Sebastian Janner, Kshama Wechalekar, Lucy Hossen

Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom

 

 

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